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the quiet superpower of being good to people who can see your trash cans.
means The quality of being friendly, helpful, and considerate toward the people who live near you.
from Built from 'neighbor,' which goes back to Old English 'neahgebur' — literally 'near-dweller,' from 'neah' (near, the ancestor of 'nigh') plus 'gebur' (a dweller or farmer, a cousin of the 'boor' in 'neighbor' and the German 'Bauer'). Add the suffix '-ly' to make it a quality and '-ness' to make it a thing, and you get the abstract noun for the whole business of living kindly beside your fellow near-dwellers.
- survival edge
- Tight-knit communities outlive isolated ones by years.
- original network
- Borrowed sugar predates the cloud by millennia.
- fence paradox
- Good fences and good neighbors literally coexist in Frost.
- crisis multiplier
- After disasters, neighbors rescue more people than first responders.
- silent contract
- No signatures, just a nod and a snowblower.
rogers neighborhood — mr. rogers' tv show teaching kindness and neighborly values to children for 33 years (1968-2005)
buenos aires communal gardens — neighborhood groups in argentina transforming vacant lots into shared green spaces since the 2001 economic crisis